Legal and ethical issues for health professionals. /
George D. Pozgar
- 2nd ed.
- Boston : Jones and Bartlett Publishers , 2010.
- xxi, 425 p. : 26 cm.
Includes index.
Contents: Introduction to ethics -- Contemporary ethical dilemmas -- End-of-life dilemmas -- Healthy care ethics committee -- Development of law -- Introduction to law -- Government, ethics, and the law -- Organizational ethics and the law -- Health care professionals' ethical and legal issues -- Physicians' ethical and legal issues -- Employee rights and responsibilities -- Patient consent -- Patient abuse -- Patient rights and responsibilities.